| Think about it - how many times do you read a | | | | yet all this is just so food companies make fat profits |
| fishing magazine only to be pounded with yet more | | | | - literally! Through my knowledge of carp bait |
| biased nonsense about such and such a bait and | | | | substances I can use various foods to multiply my |
| method the masses are using?! Here are some | | | | metabolism and maintain a healthy level of |
| unbiased tips that do not promote any company that | | | | metabolism-boosting type of muscle I can burn off |
| are highly innovative, extremely well proven for big | | | | far more sugar than most people normally would. By |
| fish - but will be new to your carp! Read on to | | | | comparison my brother is the same height as me but |
| multiply your big fish catches right now! | | | | is 5 stones heavier than my 12 stone bodyweight. |
| If you use ready-made boilies, pellets and pastes it is | | | | The link between substances exploited by the food |
| more than likely your carp will have been practicing | | | | industry and ill-health is just not well known enough |
| avoiding these very recognisable baits for years - if | | | | to be front page news as much as I would like to |
| not decades. Despite claims of many bait companies | | | | see, but some aspects of food industry practices to |
| a vast number of baits work to a great degree | | | | make us eat more of particular foods can be applied |
| against your optimal success purely because they are | | | | when putting together baits of many formats that |
| so very recognisable as a potential threat. | | | | have proven to catch more carp! |
| Carp associate danger or potential threats using all | | | | Watch out for food labelling - for instance in many |
| kinds of cures. These may be the chemicals issuing | | | | health food products that are stated as being all |
| from a boilie, or the over-used components of many | | | | natural there is a very high level of refined sugar |
| pellets for instance. Carp soon learn by association | | | | added. More often than not, lactose, glucose, |
| what foods have potential for danger - and develop | | | | fructose and other additives are included - all called |
| behaviours to avoid getting hooked. Some carp have | | | | natural but with very big impacts on senses and on |
| the capacity for doing this far more than others | | | | actually genetically altering taste specific preferences |
| because no carp is identical to another in terms of | | | | related to your human food buying behaviours! |
| individual experience combined with genetic needs | | | | Beware if you are on a diet and trying to wean |
| and preferences for example when detecting | | | | yourself off crisps. For example some low fat crisps |
| potential food substances. | | | | contain much more salt or contain the toxin MSG (it |
| But why keep on flogging baits that are far less | | | | over-hydrates brain cells making them explode - |
| effective than others? After all if you know that | | | | causing minor but progressive bleeding on the brain - |
| ready-made boilies have standard characteristics such | | | | yet another food industry cover-up! I do not |
| as their shape, firmness and resilience and kinds of | | | | recommend it to be used in any food. Natural form |
| predictable movements in water in water it would be | | | | glutamate found in protein-rich foods does not have ill |
| stupid to pretend that such baits are the peak of | | | | effects! I recommend using things like L030, |
| efficient objects to catch carp! What about the fact | | | | pre-digested fish protein, fermented shrimp and other |
| that far too many ready made baits contain exactly | | | | natural glutamate-rich substances instead to enhance |
| the same standard binders and protein ingredients - all | | | | your baits if you truly care about your carp health! |
| of which act as potential signals of danger? | | | | I tried buying lower fat crisps only to discover that |
| Think about it - when soluble substances are soon | | | | not only did they have a higher than normal level of |
| washed out of such baits they pretty much will taste | | | | salt - they also contained dextrose! You might learn |
| and smell the same; and so offer the same old | | | | what you like from this but do keep your bait head in |
| nutritional reasons for carp to eat them. But these | | | | gear because it is very important in its implications! |
| reasons may well be as good as useless because so | | | | You might think that carp syrups are new but |
| many baits like this are used all the time anyway and | | | | nothing could be farther from the truth - honey is |
| so carp will have drastically less need of such | | | | the most well-known carp attractor on record |
| nutrients - especially as heavy baiting leads to higher | | | | throughout history! |
| levels of natural food availability in very many carp | | | | If you are still in doubt about the fact that you can |
| waters! Why not think like a carp and use something | | | | make your carp baits alter carp and their preferences |
| different to really boost your catch rate instead | | | | genetically, consider how the average height of |
| Rod Hutchinson did not get into using so-called | | | | humans in the western world has risen dramatically |
| particle baits just for the fun of it. He found that on | | | | over the past 50 years. |
| very rich waters fish were feeding in different | | | | In the same way a myriad of nutritional and other |
| modes and behaved in often quite different fashions | | | | factors are growing carp to sizes that UK anglers |
| to how most carp feed in well-stocked lower water | | | | who began carp fishing in the seventies or earlier |
| quality waters. In very rich waters the old standard | | | | never dreamt was ever possible! The average size of |
| high protein boilie approach can easily be out-fished | | | | carp in most waters in the UK during the seventies |
| by using baits that replicate the items that carp | | | | was somewhere between single and double figures, |
| browse on naturally on their travels. It is very | | | | yet in some UK waters today the average can be as |
| noticeable from my eBooks reader feedback that | | | | much as 35 pounds or more - yet in the seventies |
| using pastes to initially get fish onto a new bait is | | | | and eighties, to catch even one carp well over thirty |
| massively more successful - and very fast acting, | | | | pounds was nationally significantly newsworthy! |
| compared to using boilies. | | | | Today more and more forty pound carp are being |
| It is an excellent idea to make up ground bait based | | | | caught - yet most anglers forget that very many of |
| on your intended boilie base mix ingredients or ready | | | | these were the double figure so-called pasty or |
| made base mix powders mixture. I prefer to make | | | | noddie fish that no-one took any notice of during the |
| my own because I can make them far more potent | | | | eighties! |
| - at much less cost than it would be to buy base | | | | In fact it is my certain belief that we humans have in |
| mixes. I have yet to find a boilie base mix that | | | | the past been taller than we are today - by quite a |
| cannot be made far more potent - after all these are | | | | margin. But the genetic evidence for this has been |
| commercial compromises that have been produced | | | | covered up because to conventional science this fact |
| to make money. | | | | cannot yet be explained. Just one aspect of this is |
| Such ready made baits potential for triggering feeding | | | | plain to see - at times in the past the atmosphere |
| can always be more fully maximised in a very wide | | | | has been more beneficial to growth in all creatures. |
| range of ways. You might think of flavours or dips or | | | | At various epochs in history competition among |
| palatants for instance but you can exploit an | | | | humans or between humans and other animals has |
| incredible variety of properties, physiological impacts | | | | been less important so capacity for growth has been |
| and even the ways baits and bait substances ionise | | | | different. Many factors come into why growth rates |
| the water, drop or raise water pH, or pump out even | | | | of animals can alter up or down through time but it is |
| more soluble substances via diffusion and various | | | | a fact that burial sites of races of humans such as |
| simultaneous chemical reactions taking place. | | | | indigenous Indians have been found with skeletons |
| You might make your homemade ready-made base | | | | well over 7 feet tall; some races much taller still. |
| mixes far more potent than the standard baits. One | | | | We take for granted that some African races are |
| you get the know-how you can harness the massive | | | | particularly tall, yet low ceilings and 5 feet high |
| fish-catching benefits of making your ready-made | | | | doorways of many medieval buildings in the UK for |
| base mixes extremely potent. They can be made to | | | | instance show that humans have certainly changed |
| be naturally highly bioactive in endless ways. You can | | | | up and down in size over periods of time for a wide |
| make them enzyme-active and pre-digested in a vast | | | | range of combined reasons. Ultimately all this change |
| number of ways too. These things are not secrets - | | | | shows up in the genetic record and the fact is that |
| they are readily available for anyone to discover right | | | | carp are dynamically changing genetically even |
| now but I have done my homework - to help you! | | | | through their lifetimes in response to factors such as |
| You can improve your baits by making them far | | | | the food substances they consume! |
| more beneficial to fish by improving their prebiotic | | | | We can harness this power yet most anglers seem |
| and probiotic impacts on fish too but these things | | | | to be completely oblivious to the potential impacts |
| among many others are just the tips of the ice-berg | | | | upon catches this really truly has! |
| of what is potentially possible to do to improve your | | | | I could list very many substances I can guarantee |
| catches right now - and more and more ways and | | | | are never used in commercial carp baits and probably |
| means are being discovered all the time increment by | | | | never will be either but this does not stop individuals |
| increment. All it takes for you to improve your | | | | like you and me exploiting substances that have the |
| catches is the desire to improve your catches - to | | | | kinds of impacts on carp that literally drug them. I |
| resist group mentality (of most magazine readers for | | | | could put together a number of carp bait recipes that |
| instance) and think more like a fish - like an individual | | | | you could easily say are simply a list of substances |
| and not like a fashion-following angler chained-up by a | | | | with actual drug or drug-related impacts on fish. |
| limiting conventional stereotypical mindset conditioned | | | | Think about it - we are what we eat right? OK so |
| by popular thought! | | | | consider this; not all the substances in foods get |
| It astounds me just how far behind most carp | | | | excreted or detoxified from our cells and tissues |
| anglers on the bank really are when it comes to | | | | whether they are bad or good for us; this is the |
| discussing details of their baits and how to truly | | | | same for carp. The body is an incredible storage |
| maximise their baits impacts on fish. Just soaking or | | | | vehicle but it really is what it is made of. Over time |
| dipping or glugging baits is about as far as it gets | | | | the impacts of consuming certain substances will |
| from maximising baits because you need to really | | | | build-up - for instance the positive antioxidant impacts |
| harness the basic ways substances behave in the | | | | of carp consuming a higher than normal consumption |
| water and how fish sense changes in the water. | | | | of carotenes and carotenoids. |
| Anyone can discover these things. | | | | A range of potent naturally derived pigments are well |
| It is far from true that everything is known about | | | | known to be beneficial to carp in both the short and |
| carp baits. To say that there is nothing new in carp | | | | longer term. Consider those in sweetcorn, maize and |
| baits is obviously completely ignorant and downright | | | | eggs, or shrimps or spices for instance! Such impacts |
| misleading! The leading fish scientists in the world | | | | can induce changes in specific carp sensitivities that |
| have not even discovered all there is to know about | | | | make them alter their behaviours so that when |
| very major aspects of how fish detect various vitally | | | | regularly introduced substances within baits change |
| important substances and water changes - so it is | | | | carp feeding behaviours in your unique favour. This |
| totally ignorant and very arrogant of someone to | | | | principle has been proven again and again for |
| bluntly state that everything about carp baits is | | | | particular bait substances and combinations over the |
| already known! | | | | years but the list is growing as more substances are |
| This is quite apart from the fact that carp, like us | | | | being utilised by creative forward-thinking individuals - |
| humans are constantly evolving beings, whose DNA | | | | like you perhaps! |
| changes not just from one generation to another but | | | | You might think that hemp is a prime example of a |
| actually within individuals while they are growing and | | | | classical carp bait and it is true it has many potent |
| maturing. Just ask yourself for example why it is that | | | | characteristics and nutritional and bioactive features |
| we can adapt our palate, improve our eyesight, | | | | etc that influence carp feeding and associated carp |
| re-sensitise our nose and tongue to a whole new | | | | behaviours. But the active compounds that are |
| range of substances - and how this can alter our | | | | presently known on hemp seed can be found in |
| preferences and behaviours. | | | | different strengths in other natural products if you |
| This kind of thing is a major cornerstone of the | | | | bother to look! |
| profitability of the food industry and their tricks to | | | | The same is true of many forms of compounds |
| make you buy more food by genetically altering our | | | | found in herbs and spices. Chilli is a very fashionable |
| senses by keeping us ignorant to the impacts of all | | | | word in carp fishing right now but the variety of |
| kinds of substances and their effects. Countless food | | | | active compounds associated with many forms of |
| products contain added substances that will | | | | hot spicy compound-containing plants is huge and |
| genetically alter your and your preferences in various | | | | impact on carp in many ways that make them easier |
| ways. | | | | to catch including stimulating increased protein-feeding |
| Part of the obesity and diabetes epidemics are | | | | for example. |
| related to vast volumes of refined sugar added to | | | | One major point of make about certain bait |
| foods and drink that effectively make them more | | | | substances and ignorance of them on the bank is |
| palatable and habit-forming - but the more you eat | | | | that some can prevent other baits from catching fish. |
| the higher the risk of diabetes for instance. I had a | | | | This is no joke because once this effect is witnessed |
| curry the other night and it contained an added 5 | | | | - and you are the one who knows which substances |
| grams of sugar. | | | | and effects on carp have produced this highly |
| Added to all the other subtly added sugar in other | | | | advantageous effect your will never think about carp |
| foods my sugar intake is far higher than is healthy | | | | baits in the same way again! |